Some time over the weekend a group compromised Gawker Media's servers, resulting in a security breach at all of the Gawker sites, including this one. Editors and tech are here for all the Q&A you can handle about what happened.

If you have not yet changed your account password, please stop here and click through to Lifehacker's comprehensive FAQ on the weekend's security breach and the steps you should immediately take to secure your account. Don't forget to change things like your PSN, Live and Steam passwords as well.

On December 12th, we discovered that Gawker Media's servers were compromised, resulting in a…
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I've been assured that Gawker's tech teams are working around the clock to ensure Kotaku's security and our commenters' account security moving forward. That includes bringing in an outside security firm to improve things across the board. We are also in the process of having a mass email sent out to anyone who has ever registered with any Gawker site to warn them of the breach.

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